The Animagi was Re: Giving the map to Lupin (Was: Lupin's vampire essay)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 89897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" 
<severelysigune at y...> wrote:

> Sigune reflects:
> There is one thing that troubles me, though. Isn't the scene 
> in "Snape's Worst memory" supposed to take place during 
>James  Potter's fifth year at Hogwarts? 

Yes. They're just taking their OWLs. 

Sigune:
>>Now, the nicknames derive from the 
 boys' Animagus forms, don't they? And they only figured out 
how to  transfigure themselves into animals after their /sixth/ 
year, because  in their sixth year Sirius played his prank on 
Snape and that means  Remus still had to go to the Shrieking 
Shack at that time. In PoA he  explains that this wasn't necessary 
anymore as soon as his friends  became Animagi, as they were 
able to control him in animal form.<<


Um, no. The Prank was probably in their sixth year, but the 
Animagi outings began in the fifth, as Remus says in PoA, 
"Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it."  Remus was still being 
taken to the  Shack to transform and had to stay there until his 
friends arrived to release him. Each month his friends helped 
him escape and kept him from attacking humans.  James tells 
Peter in the Penseive that "You run around with a werewolf once 
a month." So we know the outings had already begun. 


Sigune:
> who still wants to know why they called Snape 'Snivellus' as he 
> doesn't seem the crybaby type.

Not now. But a  "small dark-haired boy cried in a corner" in 
Snape's memories.

Pippin